New command: spo page default get

[milanholemans]

In order to get the home page of a specific site, it would be cool to enhance the command spo page get with following options:

Options

Option	Description
--default	Get the homepage of a specific web. Specify either name or default, but not both.

Example

m365 spo page get --webUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing --default

Additional Info

To get to know which page is the current home page, execute this request:

GET https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/Playground/_api/Web/RootFolder?$select=WelcomePage

Thereafter, you should retrieve the site page with a GetFileByServerRelativePath request.

[Saurabh7019]

Assign this to me please.

...with a GetFileByServerRelativePath request.

assuming this command will return detailed information about the home page and not just the relative URL.

[milanholemans]

Assign this to me please.

...with a GetFileByServerRelativePath request.

assuming this command will return detailed information about the home page and not just the relative URL.

Yes, the response should look the same as spo page get.

[milanholemans]

Instead of creating a new command, I'm wondering if we should just enhance spo page get to align it more with other commands where we return default values.
Examples:

• Enhancement: Retrieve default list in site #5856
• pp environment get
• ...

What is your stance on this @pnp/cli-for-microsoft-365-maintainers?

[waldekmastykarz]

Have we considered the alternative of spo page get --default? Also, since pages are web-scopes artifacts, shouldn't we need web URL rather than site URL?

[milanholemans]

Have we considered the alternative of spo page get --default? Also, since pages are web-scopes artifacts, shouldn't we need web URL rather than site URL?

Fair point about the webUrl. About the --default, it's something I could support, but currently for other commands we are providing nothing to retrieve the default value. Shouldn't we be more consistent here? It's something we can always change in a major release.

[Jwaegebaert]

Would it be worth exploring the approach you suggested in #5856? If no name is provided, we can simply return the default page, making name optional. This way, when it's not specified, the default is returned.

[martinlingstuyl]

What's the status here @milanholemans, @Jwaegebaert? @Saurabh7019 has already created a PR for this. Should we just continue as planned or rework the specs and ask Saurabh to rework as well?

[milanholemans]

Yeah it's really annoying that we have to revisit the issue when the PR has already been made. What is your opinion @martinlingstuyl? Go for consistency (no options), or use --default?

[martinlingstuyl]

Hmmm, I'd think intentionality is important. So I would vote for --default over all the other ways to do it. I would not want to get a page back where I expected another page, because I forgot something.

[milanholemans]

Hi @Saurabh7019, sorry for the super late turnaround, but we decided to take a slightly different route. Instead of creating a new command, we decided to enhance an existing command. Are you willing to implement these changes in the new spec? We totally understand if you want to withdraw from this issue.